Threaten

is used of Christ, negatively, in 1Pe 2:23; in the Middle Voice, Act 4:17, where some texts have the noun apeile in addition, hence the AV, "let us straitly threaten," lit., "let us threaten ... with threatening" (see THREATENING). (See also STRAITLY.)

"to threaten further" (pros, and No. 1), occurs in the Middle Voice in Act 4:21.